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Alabama Senators Vote Against Sotomayor

Montgomery, Alabama – (AP) - Alabama's two Republican U.S. senators votedagainst approving Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court. Sens. Jeff Sessions and Richard Shelby were on the losing sideof the Senate's 68-31 vote Thursday in Washington. Shelby says he voted against Sotomayor because of concerns abouther willingness to properly and dutifully uphold fundamental rightsguaranteed under the Constitution. Sessions says that until Sotomayor was nominated for the SupremeCourt, she advocated a judicial philosophy where judges groundtheir decisions in the subjective realm of personal opinions andprejudices.